Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-20
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Especial Correspondence of the Alexa GAZETTE
WAsI1INGroN. D. C.. AnnnsG 20. 1857.

f;neeisl Correspondence of the Alexa GAZErrE] !
WASHINGTON. D. c.. August 20. 1887.
"Solid Against the Reign of Mahoneism--
Virginia Democrats Harmonious and Hope
nl." Such are the head lines of q news
Paragraph found in the last issue OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. Everywhere amongst
democrats, there seems to be an awakening
10 the necessity of keeping Malone out OF
the u. :. Senate. As Malone, according 10
high republican authority, subordinates
everything to his extreme selllshness anu
uuholy personal greed, so there appears
10 he q disposition without as well as WITHIN
tho State TO meet him CT his chosen ground
and To make tho fight against him as per
soral a. he would conduct il on his own be-
half. a republican from Virginia., VINO Is
by no means his enemy, gave IL as his opln'
ion to day that the opposition TO Manone
IL this cnmp1ign was more uDited anu dah-
qerous than he had ever before seen IT,
Yost, Gaines, Hooper, Kiddleberger, Lewis
Brady. Cameron, Blair, ct id omne. appear
fully to realize the situation and the neces'
sitv for not only fighting now, but OF CON
tinning to fight Mahone's leadership OF their
marty. Some OF the results, he thought,
would be. fret, the defeat Of Mahono's Sen
atoriel aspirations this year; second, di-
yided delegation to the republican national
convention next year; third, strong and
vigorous, not to say violent, opposition to
Mahone'a control of fedora! patronage, and
especially of his being rendered cabinet
place should the republicans carry the next
Presidential election. ITO sum ii up"
said he, "tho present fight against him will
not down q. any one's bidding, and has
come to stay"
The directors Of the Clifton Beach Com
panv and about two hundred invited guests
went from here and Alexandria yesterday.
on the steamer Arrowsmith to Clifton
Beach, formerly known as Smiths Point,
Maryland, opposite Aqua Creek, on the
Potomac River, where they spent delight
FIJI day. Already considerable improvements
have been made there IL the way OF macad-
ami2ed walks, and in the erection OF new
buildings an,, the repairing and rerainting
Of old ones After bounteous dinner
speeches were made by ex-Congressmen
Henkle, of Maryland, Hoge, of West Vir-
gnia, Commissioner CoIman, of the Agrl-
cultural Bureau, and Col. H II. Blackburn,
of West Virginia. In these speeches IL was
stated That 1t was the intention of the COM
pany 10 make Clifton Beach the excursion
resort of Washington, and equal to any oil
| New York's similar places, and that the
company would have a steamer constructed
of sufficient speed 10 take Washington peO-
pie to the beach after business hours in the
evening, enable them to spend night there,
and bring them back in time for business
| hours in the IHornlHg.
! Senator Cockreli, OF Missouri, chairman
| OF the Senate committee TO investigate the
causes of delay in the transaction OF the
| business Of the government departments
here, 10 whom hat committee entrusted the
whole of its DUTY, completed that work last
night, aud his report is now III the hands OF
the public printer. Tho report is not as
vo.uninois rs it would have been but for
the Senator's condensing powers, as the
| bureau chiefs seem 10 have extended their
answers 80 his enquiries with the apparent
| intention of making them so long that no.
body wonld take the trouble to read them.
| The riss Of tho report is that the business OF
the departments is way behind, in the land
oNice alene 10 he extent Of fifty thousand
precmrtion claims, and that unattended to
busnesa il Increasing daily. but that if the
bureau CHIEFS woula pay the same attention
10 the luhIic business tfr.t they do to their
private atlaira, their Offices would soon be
relieved Of all tho accumulated business,
and that che sama result would be accom-.
p!ishel by the substitution Of more efficient
chiefs for the present ones.
Tbs GAEhriE's correspondent was in
| formed this in0rniog that IL gentleman 70
Gently travelling on the upper waters OF the
Amazon river was approached by resident
Of that country, who, in broken English,
told him ne understood he was from Nir-
ginia. The gentleman responding ailirma-
| lively. the South American asked if he knew
anyihing about Alexandria Receiving an
other affirmative reply, the South American
| told him he had seen, il Spanish nc~spa-
per, an extract from the Alexandria GA
| zETTE, to the effect that il "as proposed 10
| build steamship in Alexandria that would
cross the Atlantic in four days. and that the
! people Of his country were Interested in the
result Of the undertaking, as, If successful,
| they looked TO it as the means otincreNsng
greatly their commercial relations with tho
people Of the United States. So the readers
of the GAZETTE see that its contents are OBJ
iects of interest to the world at large.
Capt. Norton, of Tie Norton SEipbniid
ing Co, one branch of which is ut Alex
aadra, says he has Just contracted with
Reeder & Co, of Baltimore, for the con
his life.saying plan ito be ready in 60 days.
no Wouil nave 'I''t I'Ni bu'iS ''r hio }"'N IN
Alexandria, but that city has not yet the
facilities for such work. Ho says his week
ly pay roll at Alexandria amounts 10 $500,
and has since last May, and that If the trou
BILE about the lease Of his yard there were
settled satisfactorily it would he q great
deal more.
All Virginia pensioners of the U. S government
who have heretofore been drawing their pay from
the pension agent at Knoxville will draw them
hereafter from the one in this city.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Richard Rogers. esq, an aged and very